Ferrer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1996
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Radiant Oil Co. v. Herring · Clinton v. State · Rowe v. State · Cross v. State · Barnard v. Gertler
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The able and long experienced trial judge who presided in this case had the opportunity to ascertain the competency of the child in question, not only from the answers elicited from her but by her appearance and manner on the stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.